Ian Mckellen
Ian Mckellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBEis an English actor. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards. He has also received two Academy Award nominations, four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1939
CityBurnley, England
jobs play film
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
focus faults directors
Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.
expectations audience
The audience's expectations are ever-present.
technology imagination film
That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
adventure thinking long
2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.
film reactions audience
My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
memories lasts inquiry
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
drama enthusiasm broadway
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
gay men thinking
The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.
stories actors mediums
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
school kids needs
Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.
bullying school gay
I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.
ambition tvs latecomers
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
knows
Success in the movies has pushed me to places I didn't know I was allowed to go.